iyulaev · HackerTrans

vor 12 Jahrendiscuss

Not sure how long you've lived there but the mall I think you're referring to (utc) was remodeled not long ago. The clientele in the area has gotten more upscale and the re-design and new stores (upscale restaurants, tesla, etc) reflects on this. Fwiw based on trying to go there for lunch, foot traffic has never been better.

iyulaev

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Why not Gallium Nitride?

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Bay Trail atom is already competitive with tablet-focused ARM. I've got a Samsung 500T that runs "real" windows. It weighs as much as an iPad and has ~10 hour run time, same as the iPad. The whole microarchitecture thing is less of an issue for power consumption and performance than most people think.

iyulaev

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

"Hitting The Market" != "there is no general availability of the Dell "Copper" servers at this time."

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Why don't we take the brilliant hackers and programmers at the NSA and task them to fix and re-build the ACA exchange system?

Building a database to track the communications of ever single person in the US and ever foreigner they talk to? Piece of cake.

Building a database to track the health insurance policies for a subset of Americans? Over budget, behind schedule, still doesn't really work yet.

Priorities.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

My Atom-powered Windows x86 tablet weighs 1.5 lbs (same as iPad) and gets ~10 hours of run-time. How does Windows suck at power again?

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Change isn't intrinsically bad. Change is bad when it removes characteristics of the neighborhood that caused people to move there in the first place.

Isn't this NIMBYism, just from a different demographic?

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Furthermore, unless you get stuck out multiple times a week half the rent cost still puts you way ahead.

QFT. The thousand-plus dollar difference in rent buys a heck of a lot of "I got stranded" Uber/Taxi rides.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Algorithms by S. Dasgupta, C.H. Papadimitriou, and U.V. Vazirani looks really promising as an introductory algorithms textbook. I wonder if anyone has experience using it in class?

We used this in our upper-division intro to algorithms course. Solid book, goes over important algorithms while remaining short and concise, A+ would read again.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

True. But generally the cost of guessing and doing something wrong is much higher than saying "I don't know" and asking someone else or Googling the result. School, through homeworks and especially exams, trains us to do our best without outside help. I would argue that this behavior is maladaptive to engineering in the real world.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Barely. IIRC it's 0 points if blank, -0.25 if wrong, so if you eliminate 1 choice it's worth it to guess. I'd like to see it be -5 points if wrong, since this is more reflective of the real world. When I entered the industry as an electrical engineer this was a difficult transition for me. In school, you're incentivized to guess and BS. But in the real world, the penalty for being wrong is HUGE.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Thought this at first but seems like the model is pretty different. Bandcamp sells direct and allows tons of free streaming. This service is geared towards placement in "stores" like iTunes and Amazon.

Also the community feature of bandcamp will be harder to beat.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

What about lying down? A few years ago, BBC covered a scientific study[1] showing that sitting at a 135-degree angle dramatically reduced spinal disk movement. Anecdotally, I found that this sitting position, midway between sitting and lying down, is most comfortable for prolonged periods of time. Maybe at my next workplace I'll insist that my office be fitted with a lounge chair.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/6187080.stm

iyulaev

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Agree that it will look better, and is probably a better experience. Sadly college admissions is a game, and it is risky to ignore it.

iyulaev

vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Also, a good internship will look much better on a college app than a few extra points.

Sadly, nope, unless you're applying to a high-end private school. I know the UC system doesn't care at all about your work experience, and even if you founded a company when you were in HS, that would at best be worth 150-300 SAT points.

Now that I think about it, it's scary that I still remember this.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Have you ever taken compilers, operating systems, or some other project-heavy class? If so I'm pretty sure you've noticed several individuals completing a project with ease while the rest of the class, working in teams, struggles with. You can visit any decent CS program, any semester, and see this happen. It's no myth.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Is anyone else bothered by the lack of lossless audio availability on Amazon and other music distributors? This has been a stumbling point for me. Why doesn't Amazon offer FLAC or similar? I can't imagine the bandwidth and storage requirements are beyond what they can (inexpensively) handle.

For this reason I've been really excited about bandcamp. That and it makes it really easy for (actually) independent artists to distribute their music.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Good observation but I disagree, to some extent. Technical books that teach low-level knowledge and technologies will always become obsolete quickly. But books that enable the reader to understand deep concepts rather than shallow technologies have a much longer half-life. This is similar to the complaint that engineering school is always "behind the technology curve" which is nonsense. You don't go to school to learn technology, instead, you learn the basis underlying it. This latter knowledge changes much more slowly. A good technical book should aim to teach the same.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

So why not have team members work shifts? Get 24 hour coverage in the office without having frazzled people making poor decisions. Besides, the people making the decisions aren't these banking interns nor the junior associates. The more junior guys and gals are, from what I understand, mostly just doing grunt work.

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vor 13 Jahrendiscuss

Agree 100%. I bought a Samsung 500T under the same premise about 6 months ago. 1.5 lbs, 10 hour battery life, atom processor, and it runs "real windows". It's not as good a tablet as the iPad but it's a much better computer. Not sure what the advantage of Windows RT would be given the excellent battery life possible with x86 windows.

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